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29 Apr 2019, 7:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 The Board Majority also found that communications that Metalcraft sent directly to workers about its cessation of dues deductions did not violate the NLRA. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 9:00 am by Staff
Some of the health care agencies that suffer from fraud include Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and federal workers compensation. [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 12:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Employer and other business leaders also should keep in mind that the Proposed Regulation follows the the Labor Department Wage and Hour Division’s proposal last month of of an employer-friendly change to its Regular Rate Regulations and an employee friendly Salary Theshold Rule that instantly will convert more than 1 million currently salaried workers to hourly workers See, Proposed FLSA Base Pay Rule Clarifies Overtime Treatment… [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 2:54 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Other Defensive Actions To Minimize FLSA Exposures Whether or not the either of these proposed rule changes takes effect, U.S. businesses will want to strengthen their existing practices for classifying and compensating workers under existing Federal and state wage and hour laws, tighten contracting and other compliance oversight in relation to outsourced services, weigh options to clean up exposure areas, review insurance coverages and consider other options to… [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 6:24 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Want to learn, share or discuss other human resources, benefits and compensation, or health and wellness management developments and ideas? [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 12:17 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her experience encompasses leading and supporting the development and defense of innovative new policies, programs, practices and solutions; advising and representing clients on routine plan establishment, plan documentation and contract drafting and review, administration, change and other compliance and operations; crisis prevention and response, compliance and risk management audits and investigations, enforcement actions and other dealings with the US Congress, Departments of Labor,… [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 3:03 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  In June 2018, an HHS Administrative Law Judge ruled in favor of OCR and required The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MD Anderson), a Texas cancer center, to pay $4.3 million in civil money penalties for HIPAA violations. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 8:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers that pay or considering paying hourly workers different hourly rates for different categories of work within the same work week should evaluate these compensation practices in light of a new December 21, 2018 Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) opinion letter that evaluated the FLSA minimum wage and overtime compliance of one such arrangement. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 9:56 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Interim relief published by the IRS and Treasury Department provides relief to workers whether the change in withholding eligibility results solely due to a Code change enacted as part of Trump Tax. [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 3:46 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her experience encompasses leading and supporting the development and defense of innovative new policies, programs, practices and solutions; advising and representing clients on routine plan establishment, plan documentation and contract drafting and review, administration, change and other compliance and operations; crisis prevention and response, compliance and risk management audits and investigations, enforcement actions and other dealings with the US Congress, Departments of Labor,… [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 4:19 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Examples of such obligations include the privacy and data security rules of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA), the Internal Revenue Code and other tax laws, federal and state consumer debt and information, electronic crime, data security and identity theft statutes; federal and state trade secret and intellectual property laws; and others, for which violations often equal or substantially exceed the civil monetary penalty liability that commonly arise… [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 3:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans, their employer and other sponsors and fiduciaries, health insurers, health care providers, health care clearinghouses and their business associates should study and learn from the just announced, record-setting $16 million resolution agreement between health insurance giant, Anthem, Inc., to resolve Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) charges that Anthem, Inc. [read post]
12 Sep 2018, 6:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her experience encompasses leading and supporting the development and defense of innovative new policies, programs, practices and solutions; advising and representing clients on routine plan establishment, plan documentation and contract drafting and review, administration, change and other compliance and operations; crisis prevention and response, compliance and risk management audits and investigations, enforcement actions and other dealings with the US Congress, Departments of Labor,… [read post]
10 Sep 2018, 7:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
This legislation is our commitment to the American worker to ensure our tax code remains the most competitive in the world. [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 11:50 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer Responsibility to Protect Workers Protecting workers from extreme heat generally is part of the responsibility of an employer to provide a safe workplace under the Occupational Health & Safety Act (OSHA) and state occupational health and safety statutes. [read post]
18 May 2018, 11:02 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her experience encompasses leading and supporting the development and defense of innovative new policies, programs, practices and solutions; advising and representing clients on routine plan establishment, plan documentation and contract drafting and review, administration, change and other compliance and operations; crisis prevention and response, compliance and risk management audits and investigations, enforcement actions and other dealings with the US Congress, Departments of Labor,… [read post]
16 Apr 2018, 10:38 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Fagg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. [read post]